[ArrogantBustard]

That seems like a lot.

It seems like hardly any, to me.

We should have at least double that number, and we should be prepared to use them.

[EternalVigilance]

The Pentagon said the stockpile of 5,113 as of September 2009 represents a 75 percent reduction since 1989.

In other words, since Reagan got on the helicopter and headed out for the ranch.

This is the result of having Democrats and their weak sister RINO counterparts in charge of our government ever since.

[cowtowney]

” It seems like hardly any, to me.We should have at least double that number, and we should be prepared to use them.”

Is this an emotional answer or an objective one? Why don’t we have 2 million nukes? Why 5,000? Whether you are willing to use them is another question.

What happens if you have a nuke?
a) you have to guard it
b) you have to maintain it
c) if you don’t use it, you have to remove it from your inventory and remove the nuclear material and do something with it

All of these steps cost money. Lots of it. The military is an inefficient enterprise in general.

Our country is broke. We can no longer do things without thinking about the costs. We never could. We just thought we could.